C. LaVonne "Bonnie" Krick March 22, 1920 - July 18, 2010
C. LaVonne “Bonnie” Krick, age 90, of Lincoln and formerly of Kearney died Sunday July 18, 2010 at the The Monarch Hospice in Lincoln.
Funeral Services will be Monday, July 26, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Kearney. Rev. Gary Main will officiate and burial will be at Liberty Cemetery, northeast of Minden. Visitation will be prior to services Monday at the church. Memorials are suggested to the Krick Family Scholarship Fund established for the benefit of area students. A message of condolence, tribute or memory can be left at www.hlmkfuneral.com. Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services of Kearney is in charge of arrangements
C. LaVonne (Busboom) Krick (“Bonnie”) was the third child of Harm Johann and Mary Viola (Lofquist) Busboom. She was born 2 miles north of Fairfield on March 22, 1920. Bonnie’s mother passed away when she was four years of age, she moved with her father and 5 siblings to Wahoo, for a few years, before returning to Fairfield. In 1938 she graduated from Fairfield High School where she was a member of the band, mixed chorus, glee club and participated in school plays.
In 1940 she married Donald Krick of rural Minden, NE. In their early years of married life, they lived in Hastings and Red Cloud. During the war years, she traveled to be near her husband and worked as a waitress, phone operator, sales clerk at Montgomery Ward, and was later employed as a payroll clerk at the Naval Ammunition Depot in Hastings.
Following WWII, Bonnie and her husband settled in York, NE where Don was employed by the Farmers’ Home Administration. Their son, David Wayne was born in Omaha during this time. In the late 1940s they moved to Ord, NE, where son John Douglas was born in 1949. While living in Ord, Bonnie was a bookkeeper and cashier for Kansas Nebraska Natural Gas Company and was active in the First United Methodist Church.
The family moved to Kearney in 1966 where Bonnie was employed as a new accounts manager for the First National Bank of Kearney, for 16 years. She was an avid genealogist and has published books on the Busboom Branches and the Krick-Hansen Kinfolk. Bonnie was very active in Eastern Star, was Worthy Matron three times, and held all of the other offices. She was past president of the VFW Auxiliary and was twice president of the Ft. Kearney Genealogy Society. Bonnie was an active member of the First United Methodist Church of Kearney for almost 40 years.
Bonnie enjoyed family reunions, playing bridge, golf, travel, cooking, and staying up til midnight working the crossword puzzles in the newspaper. She was well known for her excellent cooking. Her fried chicken was always the first thing gone at area picnics, followed soon by her cookies.
During their 69 years of marriage, Bonnie and Don traveled all over the United States (including Hawaii), as well as Mexico, Great Britain, and Germany. Their family vacations usually involved visiting siblings in Ohio, Arizona, California, Oregon, and Colorado.
In February of 2009, husband Don Krick passed away and, soon thereafter, Bonnie moved to Lincoln to be near son John and his family. She resided at The Landing at Williamsburg Assisted Living for the past 1 ½ years. While there she had family visitors virtually every day, enjoyed the comfort of daily assistance, and thoroughly enjoyed excellent food.
Bonnie was preceded in death by her parents, one brother, four sisters, her husband Donald E Krick (2/4/09), and sons Donald Krick Jr (10/14/44), David Wayne Krick (7/5/52).
She is survived by son John Krick and daughter-in-law Kellee of Lincoln, granddaughter Kasey Cortney of Council Bluffs, IA, grandson Brendon James and his wife, Christin of Lincoln, grandson Corby Nathan Benjamin Krick of Omaha, as well as great- grandchildren Camilla Cortney, Cale Cortney, and Emma Cortney of Council Bluffs.
Lunch will follow graveside services at Burchell’s White Hill Farmhouse Inn, 1578 30 Road, Minden, NE.
